FORT DONELSON TO CHANCELLORSVILLE 
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QUESTIONS ON THE TEXT 
ı, What was the plan of campaign of the Union forces? 
2. Give an account of the capture of Fort Donelson. What effect did 
‘he capture of the fort have? Sketch the life of General Grant up to 1861. 
3. Give an account of the battle of Shiloh. 
4. How was the Mississippi opened at the North? At the South? 
5. Describe the military operations of Bragg in 1862. 
6. Describe the encounter between the Merrimac and the Monitor. 
7. Give an account of McClellan’s Peninsular Campaign. Sketch the 
life of General Lee up to 1862. 
8. When, by whom, and with what result was the second battle of 
Manassas fought? The battle at Antietam Creek? The battle at Fred- 
ericksburg? 
9. When and under what circumstances was the Emancipation Proc- 
Jamation issued? What were the provisions of the proclamation? 
10. Give an account of the battle at Chancellorsville, May, 1863. 
11. How, did the South manage to inflict injury upon the commerce of 
the North? What was the Geneva Award? 
REVIEW AND READING REFERENCES 
I. Dates: 1588, 1777, 1781, 1787, 1812, 1825, 1861 (2). 
2. Places: Plymouth, Bunker Hill, Yorktown, Charleston, Manassas, 
3. Persons: Penn, Oglethorpe, Champlain, Marquette, La Salle, Madi- 
son, Jackson, De Witt Clinton, Fillmore, Morse, Fulton, Davis, Mc- 
Clellan. 
4. Tell what you can about: The voyage of Magellan; the Plymouth 
colony; Bacon’s Rebellion; King Philip’s War; the treatv of 1783; the 
Louisiana Purchase; the naval operations of the War of 1812; the battle 
of New Orleans; the treaty of Ghent; the first steamboat; the Erie 
Canal; the invention of the telegraph; the invention of the sewing- 
Machine; the secession of the Confederate States; the firing upon Fort 
Sumter ; the battle of Manassas; the capture of Mason and Slidell, 
5. Topics: Farragut at New Orleans: 3, 313-315. The Emancipation 
Proclamation: 3, 315-318. Murfreesboro: 3, 318-320. The Merrimac 
and the Monitor: 11, 274 725. The Picket Guard: 14, 433. Lee and 
Grant: 22, 274-288.